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Ubaruh’s debut album Hey, Ubaruh! on Partyfine is a psychedelic, groove-heavy ride through Brazilian and Caribbean rhythms, Balearic warmth, acid house, nu-disco and live instrumentation. The São Paulo duo of Phillipi Alves and Emmo Martins build their sound around real bass and guitar lines, heavy percussion, acid arpeggios and a free-spirited dancefloor mentality. In this Track Talk, they share ten records that shaped their friendship, their studio chemistry and the musical universe behind Ubaruh.
Some projects are built around a concept. Others grow naturally out of friendship, shared records, late studio hours and a certain kind of creative noise. Ubaruh clearly belongs to that second category.
The name itself comes from “O Barulho”, meaning “The Noise”, and that already says a lot about the spirit behind the project. Ubaruh is the creative partnership between São Paulo producer Phillipi Alves, known from Fatnotronic and DEEWEE, and multi-instrumentalist Emmo Martins, known from Monterno and Bamba Music. Together they channel a sound that is colourful, loose, rhythmic and deeply physical.
Their debut album Hey, Ubaruh! lands on Partyfine with eleven tracks that move between psychedelic dance music, Balearic groove, Brazilian and Caribbean rhythm, cosmic disco, acid house and sun-drenched electronic funk. What makes it work is the combination of real playing and electronic pressure. Live bass and guitar lines sit next to acid arpeggios, strange synth leads, pop and R&B-leaning vocals and a heavy percussive backbone.
For me, the interesting thing about Ubaruh is that the music does not feel boxed into one genre lane. It can work in a club, but it also has enough character and detail for more focused listening. You hear the dancefloor, but you also hear two musicians having fun with texture, rhythm, memory and instinct.
That balance becomes even clearer with the album focus track Baila Dance. After Lento Sem Parar and A Dream For So Long, the duo push into a higher gear with proper club BPM energy, live electric bass, guitar and explosive Brazilian percussion by Arlen Ribeiro. It is raw, sweaty and direct, but still carries the psychedelic edge that makes Ubaruh feel like its own universe.
Below, Ubaruh take us through ten tracks that helped shape that universe, from Basement Jaxx and Tone Loc to Rita Lee, Altin Gun, Black Sabbath, Hot Chip and Soulwax.
This is the album that first brought us together. When we had just met, this album was the shit. Still is. It has definitely influenced us for Ubaruh. It’s just perfect. I remember seeing Phillip DJing on turntables when he was just a teenager in tiny bars in Pinheiros, a close neighborhood in São Paulo west zone where my studio is today, where we now produced all Ubaruh tracks. We also saw the live at Skoll beat circa 2003 in São Paulo. One of the best shows of my life. Way too much drugs and good music s2
This one is gonna make Phillipi laugh. I remember this song early when we met back, in the 2000s. We produced some remixes just for fun and I remember this was a huge reference to me.
A huge jump in time that reminds me so much of an era Phillipi and I were really musically connected again, after some years I spent focused on indie rock guitar. He had this vinyl, I loved the harmonies so badly. Thundercat and his out of this world art is still a huge thing for us.
This was before we became Ubaruh. Rite Lee is my greatest brazillian rock idol and when she recorded an audio saying each of our names loud and clear, that she was in love with the remix, I had to stop my car where I was and melt down. She died a few months after that. The second half of this remix shows where we are about to head with Ubaruh. It gets psychedelic but still very dance-floor oriented.
Definitely the first song that comes to my mind when thinking about the pandemic time, when Phillip and I got together at my studio starting remixing for other artists. I felt in love with Altin Gun in such a way that I had this album cover grafitted in my backyard wall. So unique, so cool, so much to do with what we came about doing in Ubaruh mainly regarding guitars and percussion.
A lot inspiration from my friends from Ghent, i remember listening to this before the Ubaruh sessions.
A bit of metal balearic inspiration from Black Sabbath, really fits the Ubaruh vibes.
I love this side project of Gavina from LCD Soundsystem, non sense and acid.
Ubaruh have a lot of similarities and influence from Hot Chip, that electro pop non sense.
And soulwax always a big inspiration.
Hey, Ubaruh! feels like the kind of debut album that could only come from a project with history behind it. Not history in the heavy, academic sense, but the real kind: friendship, parties, remixes, shared references, studio experiments and years of absorbing music from different scenes.
That is why the album does not feel like a forced blend of styles. The Brazilian and Caribbean rhythms, Balearic warmth, acid lines, live bass, guitars, percussion and psychedelic textures all move together naturally. It sounds like a duo following their own taste rather than chasing a fixed format.
For Dirty Disco, this is exactly where things get interesting. Ubaruh’s music has enough club energy to move a room, but also enough musical personality to stand out from standard dancefloor material. It is playful, sweaty, colourful and rhythmically rich, with Baila Dance pushing the album into a more direct club space.
Listen to Hey, Ubaruh! by Ubaruh on Partyfine and start with Baila Dance if you want the fastest route into the duo’s psychedelic dancefloor world.
Are you an artist, label or PR agency? Submit your music for possible coverage on Dirty Disco via our promo page.Ubaruh are a Brazilian duo from São Paulo formed by producer Phillipi Alves, known from Fatnotronic and DEEWEE, and multi-instrumentalist Emmo Martins, known from Monterno and Bamba Music.
The name Ubaruh comes from “O Barulho”, which means “The Noise”. It reflects the long-term friendship and sonic curiosity behind the project.
Hey, Ubaruh! is the debut album from Ubaruh, released on Partyfine. It features eleven tracks built around psychedelic dance music, Balearic grooves, Brazilian and Caribbean rhythms, acid house and live instrumentation.
Ubaruh’s sound combines fat organic basslines, hypnotic guitars, heavy percussion, acid arpeggios, unusual synth leads and a free, cosmopolitan approach to dance music.
The focus track is Baila Dance. It pushes the duo into proper club BPM territory with live electric bass, guitar and explosive Brazilian percussion by Arlen Ribeiro.
Ubaruh fits Dirty Disco because the project blends groove, electronic experimentation, live musicianship, disco energy and club-focused rhythm in a way that feels warm, adventurous and danceable.
In this Track Talk, Ubaruh mention music by Basement Jaxx, Tone Loc, Thundercat, Rita Lee, Altin Gun, Asa Moto, Black Sabbath, Black Meteoric Star, Hot Chip and Soulwax.
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